ABOUT US

Children's safety and welfare come first.

WHO WE ARE

Protect Children’s Rights Trust (PCRT) is a non-governmental non-profit organisation based in the Ilala Municipality of the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania. The PCRT's vision for children's dignity and equality to be respected in Tanzania through research, training and advocacy. PCRT’s mission is to encourage the realisation of children’s rights by enabling child-centred methods at schools and at homes; to combat violence against children at schools, at homes and everywhere else.

WHAT WE DO

The PCRT vision is to see the dignity and equality of children are respected in Tanzania through research, training, and advocacy. PCRT’s mission is to encourage realization of children’s rights by enabling child centered methods at schools and at homes; to combat violence against children at schools, at homes and everywhere else they may be as well as improving their day-to-day lives. To achieve the stated vision and mission PCRT has set the following goals:

To promote and use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of child and the Tanzania Law of the Child Act to defend and protect children’s rights.
To ensure that children can grow up free from oppression and conditions which enables them to attain full potential within the society.
To enable children to become holders of rights and be able to contribute to exert claims on the adults around them.

OBJECTIVE

The PCRT has several ongoing objectives including:

To conduct research that enhances our understanding of the rights and needs of children and young people and establish the baseline.
To provide educational for teenage pregnancy prevention: Changing the behaviour of young people e.g. in delaying the start of sexual activity.
To provide support services to girl children who are already in family way and for teenage parents i.e. parenting and in basic provisions to meet daily needs of the mothers and babies.
Conducting child rights seminars and workshops/training to primary and secondary school students and awareness-raising and advocacy work among teachers, parents, health workers and community leaders/members about child rights, UN convention on the Rights of the Child.
To provide training on the introduction to statutory Laws to teachers, parents, health workers and community leaders/members (esp. Laws which protects children): a) Criminal Law- Sexual child abuse offences e.g. rape and defilement offences. (b) Inheritance Law – Importance of “will writing” by parents.
To seek funding for the provision of resources for the implementation of viable projects aimed at achieving the objectives mentioned above and to ensure PCRT sustainability.